Sentences with phrase «practice of figurative art»

The book attempts to address the question of how societies represent themselves through the practice of figurative art.

Not exact matches

Rejecting the figurative and abstract art of the era, and in an effort to transform the Japanese psyche from wartime regimentation to independence of thought, Gutai artists fulfilled their commitment to innovative practices by producing art through concrete, performative actions.

Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Her study and observation of the figurative and realistic tradition in Western art has resulted in her accumulating a body of knowledge that she draws on directly in her artistic practice.

Timed for the new milleneum, this group show embraced a wide view of ends and endings — philosophical, figurative, apocolyptical, mortal, grammatical — to survey ideas and practices in contemporary art.

Rather than conforming to the era's dominant trends of pop art and conceptualism, he defied expectation by turning instead to figurative painting — unfashionable in London at that time — and began to develop a unique painterly practice informed by diverse art historical precedents.

Subsequent exhibitions include Inter + Vista, an exploration of contemporary vignettes via figurative and formalist practices, shown at L + M Arts, Los Angeles in 2013 and most recently «Colony», a series of paintings depicting the conditioned movements of a group of young adults ensconced in the setting of anonymous apartments, exhibited at Galerie Haas in Berlin in 2016.

The encounter had its influence on Caro's practice, turning him away from the figurative style that had characterized his art at that time and toward the kinds of geometric forms he had seen in Noland's work.

Chief among them was the notion that Chicago was an isolated, provincial backwater unsupportive of sophisticated art practice, favoring only a figurative, psychological tradition.

Simon's artistic practice is informed by an academic interest in theoretical ideas behind abstraction in art and explores the act of transformation of figurative elements in painting into abstract planes.

Independent art critic and curator Sacha Craddock discusses figurative painting practices in the context of the exhibition Figuratively Speaking curated by Marcelle Joseph.

Although a master of both landscape and figurative works, Tomás O'Maoldomhnaigh is chiefly noted for his portrait art, which forms the basis of his thriving practice.

Eisenman's continual representation of women (both «butch» and «femme») and female love not only imbues the practice of figurative painting with an audaciously queer bent but also recasts art history in a feminist light.